Steamy Summer Reading...

This was in my email yesterday and I wanted to share it.  I think NPR has come up with some really interesting summer reading this season.  This one is for steamy sizzling beach reads.

Review Of Fallen...

Angels and…well…more angels and then fallen angels and angels who are sort of in between. Lucinda Price is not an angel. In fact she is spending her junior year of high school in a reform school called Sword and Cross. She has been bothered by shadowy images for much of her life and lately these shadows have begun to alter her life. She has come to Sword and Cross because of an accident involving a friend. She is not trusted by her parents and is very unsure of how her actions caused her to be at Sword and Cross. The one thing she is sure of is that when the shadows come…she cannot control them and bad things tend to happen. She begins to make friends at school but they are questionable friends. After all they are all attending a reform school where they are locked in and watched by cameras and sent to detention and life is very regimented. Lucinda is drawn to one person at school and that is Daniel Gregori. She is unsure why and he appears to have the opposite feeling about her. At the same time she is warned to stay away from him and is sort of charmed and wooed by another classmate…Cam…who appears to be able to provide picnics and limo rides and tons of other contraband items. Luce is drawn to him even though she does not want to be. As I read this beautiful novel alarm bells went off in my head when Cam gave her a gold necklace with a serpent on it. To me…that meant that he was quite the opposite of an angel but the story was still unfolding.

The author writes beautifully about the angels…their wings…every angel seemed to have a different kind of wing pattern and when they are tucked away and then unfolded again…it was quite magical. I totally loved this story. It was sort of oddly spiritual. I know that the author has planned two more within this series. I cannot wait to read them.

Man Booker Long List...

These were announced today.  Here is my link for the Man Booker Long List. 

A Sad Week For Books In The Mail... But... Kindling Books...A Festival!!!

 These I bought...

These I preordered...thus when they come I am totally surprised!!!

Scary Thunder And Wind And Lightning And Fallen Trees...

Storms swept through our area yesterday afternoon.   The day was supposed to be just really really hot and sunny and all of a sudden at 2:07 everything changed...winds and rain and crashing lightning and in seconds all of the power all around us was gone...literally gone...what to do...what to do...

Hmmm...Sunday's are a favorite television night...Big Brother and the Food Network find a chef show and  Mad Men...and the house was getting warmer and warmer and warmer...no sign of power any time soon sooooooooooo...and everything in our house needs electricity...even showers and faucets.    And have I said just how hot and uncomfortable we were getting?   And all of my devices...my techie toys were out of power...yikes!!!

We packed up and set off for the nearest hotel...Patty and Dennis and Lucy...we took showers and ordered room service...rare tuna for Lucy and soup and salads for us... and had a delightful time...we even had hot chocolate chip cookies for dessert...it was a wonderful hotel...and when we came home this morning all of the lights were on and the power was back and the world as I know it is all charged up again...

Thank you God..